If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
KEITH RICHARDSI read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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